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most citedAn Improved Multi-Output Gaussian Process RNN with Real-Time Validation for Early Sepsis Detection

75 citations · 232 across the 14 of their papers we have counts for

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15 papers

cs.LG2026

MS-ECG-FM: Towards a More Universal Electrocardiogram Foundation Model for Health Monitoring using Multi-source Contrastive Learning

Robert A. Lewis, I-Min Chiu, Kyle Verrier +7

Electrocardiography (ECG) records the electrical activity of the heart, aiding diagnosis by detecting abnormalities in cardiac function. ECG foundation models have demonstrated pro…

cs.LG2025

Wrist Photoplethysmography Predicts Dietary Information

Kyle Verrier, Achille Nazaret, Joseph Futoma +2

Whether wearable photoplethysmography (PPG) contains dietary information remains unknown. We trained a language model on 1.1M meals to predict meal descriptions from PPG, aligning…

cs.LG2025

Beyond Sensor Data: Foundation Models of Behavioral Data from Wearables Improve Health Predictions

Eray Erturk, Fahad Kamran, Salar Abbaspourazad +6

Wearable devices record physiological and behavioral signals that can improve health predictions. While foundation models are increasingly used for such predictions, they have been…

cs.LG2025

Wearable Accelerometer Foundation Models for Health via Knowledge Distillation

Salar Abbaspourazad, Anshuman Mishra, Joseph Futoma +2

Modern wearable devices can conveniently record various biosignals in the many different environments of daily living, enabling a rich view of individual health. However, not all b…

stat.ME2023

Label Shift Estimators for Non-Ignorable Missing Data

Andrew C. Miller, Joseph Futoma

We consider the problem of estimating the mean of a random variable Y subject to non-ignorable missingness, i.e., where the missingness mechanism depends on Y . We connect the auxi…

stat.ML2021★ 2 cited

Model-based metrics: Sample-efficient estimates of predictive model subpopulation performance

Andrew C. Miller, Leon A. Gatys, Joseph Futoma +1

Machine learning models now commonly developed to screen, diagnose, or predict health conditions are evaluated with a variety of performance metrics. An important first ste…

cs.LG2020★ 24 cited

Model-based Reinforcement Learning for Semi-Markov Decision Processes with Neural ODEs

Jianzhun Du, Joseph Futoma, Finale Doshi-Velez

We present two elegant solutions for modeling continuous-time dynamics, in a novel model-based reinforcement learning (RL) framework for semi-Markov decision processes (SMDPs), usi…

cs.LG2020★ 12 cited

Interpretable Off-Policy Evaluation in Reinforcement Learning by Highlighting Influential Transitions

Omer Gottesman, Joseph Futoma, Yao Liu +4

Off-policy evaluation in reinforcement learning offers the chance of using observational data to improve future outcomes in domains such as healthcare and education, but safe deplo…

stat.ML2020★ 4 cited

Identifying Distinct, Effective Treatments for Acute Hypotension with SODA-RL: Safely Optimized Diverse Accurate Reinforcement Learning

Joseph Futoma, Muhammad A. Masood, Finale Doshi-Velez

Hypotension in critical care settings is a life-threatening emergency that must be recognized and treated early. While fluid bolus therapy and vasopressors are common treatments, i…

stat.ML2020★ 16 cited

POPCORN: Partially Observed Prediction COnstrained ReiNforcement Learning

Joseph Futoma, Michael C. Hughes, Finale Doshi-Velez

Many medical decision-making tasks can be framed as partially observed Markov decision processes (POMDPs). However, prevailing two-stage approaches that first learn a POMDP and the…

cs.CY2019★ 22 cited

"The Human Body is a Black Box": Supporting Clinical Decision-Making with Deep Learning

Mark Sendak, Madeleine Elish, Michael Gao +6

Machine learning technologies are increasingly developed for use in healthcare. While research communities have focused on creating state-of-the-art models, there has been less foc…

stat.ML2017★ 75 cited

An Improved Multi-Output Gaussian Process RNN with Real-Time Validation for Early Sepsis Detection

Joseph Futoma, Sanjay Hariharan, Mark Sendak +5

Sepsis is a poorly understood and potentially life-threatening complication that can occur as a result of infection. Early detection and treatment improves patient outcomes, and as…

stat.ML2017★ 67 cited

Learning to Detect Sepsis with a Multitask Gaussian Process RNN Classifier

Joseph Futoma, Sanjay Hariharan, Katherine Heller

We present a scalable end-to-end classifier that uses streaming physiological and medication data to accurately predict the onset of sepsis, a life-threatening complication from in…

stat.ML2016★ 1 cited

Scalable Modeling of Multivariate Longitudinal Data for Prediction of Chronic Kidney Disease Progression

Joseph Futoma, Mark Sendak, C. Blake Cameron +1

Prediction of the future trajectory of a disease is an important challenge for personalized medicine and population health management. However, many complex chronic diseases exhibi…

stat.ML2012★ 9 cited

A unifying representation for a class of dependent random measures

Nicholas J. Foti, Joseph D. Futoma, Daniel N. Rockmore +1

We present a general construction for dependent random measures based on thinning Poisson processes on an augmented space. The framework is not restricted to dependent versions of…